WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO NOVEMBER 1870
Find out what all happened January to November 1870

The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15. (12. May 1870)

Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared. (4. September 1870)

Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins. (3. January 1870)

Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone. (18. September 1870)

The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire. (28. February 1870)

The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded. (13. April 1870)

Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress. (25. February 1870)

Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory. (6. August 1870)

Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction. (30. March 1870)

Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia. (19. July 1870)

Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories. (15. July 1870)

The Republic of Ploiești, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania. (8. August 1870)

A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly). (15. January 1870)

Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia and complete the unification of Italy. (20. September 1870)

In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the Marias Massacre. (23. January 1870)

Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought. (18. August 1870)

Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23. (3. September 1870)

Marshal François Achille Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers in one of the biggest French defeats of the Franco-Prussian War. (27. October 1870)

The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships. (27. February 1870)

The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race. (3. February 1870)